Post-Game Talk: Pens/Isles Game 1: Home Ice + Good Matchup all for nothing

[NewAgeOutlaw]

I'm as disappointed as anybody, but the overall effort was good and anybody thinking a Trotz team was going to be a cakewalk was fooling themselves.

 

[ColePens]

I really don’t have it in me to care about this team the way I used too.

I think that's my disappointment. I was ready to get lost in the game and just have fun/believe. That's all i wanted to do.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Well that’s it. This team is screwed if that’s how Jarry is going to play.

TBF, while it was not a great performance, every Penguins goalie we've ever won the Cup with has shat the bed at some point in the postseason. Look at how MAF is just killing it with Vegas.

I guess it's the new HF dumb thing, but I'm more pissed at the lack of compete and effort team wide than a goalie letting in a sloppy goal nearly 15 minutes into OT.

 

[vodeni]

Jarry is playing high shots like he has a broken clavicle and doesn't want the puck to touch him above the chest.

thats the one thatpuzzles me big time

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Well, when you are tentative and haven't located the puck well in the previous 60 min... you tend to have bad positioning.

Funny enough, it probably was the only decent chance he gave up. Turnover, close shot, no gap for Petts, and knuckle ball chip.

Disgusting really. Couldn't believe it

 

[Empoleon8771]

you don't see many 40 save shutouts. Or however many it would have been before OT even.

The total amount of shots doesn't matter if the shots you're facing aren't dangerous.

The Islanders really didn't have that many chances today.

 

[Will Hunting]

Blame Jarry all you want. He had some big saves too, but obviously some bad goals. What bothers me more is that we weren´t better at all. Horrible 3rd period. Generated very little and it had a loss written all over them since the start of the OT too. This is not nearly enough. If we can´t even have a slight edge in play at home, then this series is gonna end very sadly. Again. Losing every OT in the playoffs. This team just can´t bring it big time anymore.

 

[spcastlemagic]

I’d take Lagace next game. We don’t have time to see if Jarry can put it together.

 

[Ogrezilla]

How wasn't it sickening?

I mean its an OT loss against another good team.

 

[LOGiK]

Now I have to mow the lawn... after that game I just feel like dumping gasoline on it and watching it burn

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

thats the one thatpuzzles me big time

Looks scared of a damn puck. Get him out of the net.

 

[Bnat66]

They just have to start playing the right way

 

[HandshakeLine]

If this is the Jarry we are going to see Legace couldn’t be any worse. All 4 goals were on Jarry today

Oh Legace can be much much worse. That's the problem.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

They’ll be better next game

 

[ncm7772]

I will say this is as disappointed as I've felt since Game 5 of the ECF in 2016. Luckily that one went differently.

Dude. Not just saying this to agree with you, was JUST thinking this. I was in such a bad mood the next day after that one. Unfortunately, it’s gonna be the same tomorrow.

 

[Gurglesons]

McCann and Rust proving they are regular season warriors tonight too. Hopefully they can actual do something. At least McCann had some greasy defensive plays.

 

[KIRK]

TBF, while it was not a great performance, every Penguins goalie we've ever won the Cup with has shat the bed at some point in the postseason. Look at how MAF is just killing it with Vegas.

I guess it's the new HF dumb thing, but I'm more pissed at the lack of compete and effort team wide than a goalie letting in a sloppy goal nearly 15 minutes into OT.

Yeah, but shitting the bed at the outset usually isn't indicative of one of the good runs.

 

[deadinthewater]

I'm as disappointed as anybody, but the overall effort was good and anybody thinking a Trotz team was going to be a cakewalk was fooling themselves.

There are no cakewalks anymore. It's the playoffs. Every team got here for a reason. But I agree, I think they played well enough.

 

[Fenrir009]

Well Tuesday will be a must-win game now.

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Now I have to mow the lawn... after that game I just feel like dumping gasoline on it and watching it burn

I have to do laundry. Hopefully I get my puke stains out. Horrible goaltending

 

[HandshakeLine]

I mean its an OT loss against another good team.

Yes, but doesn't it just invalidate your utter existence that you lost one game in a best of 7?

 

[Darren McCord]

Gaudreau has been one of the only guys to show up and is rewarded with the lowest ice time.

Not saying he is the savior but it’s OT and the isles role four lines. The pens beat themselves along with jarry

 

[Ogrezilla]

I’d take Lagace next game. We don’t have time to see if Jarry can put it together.

but we can see if Legace is an NHL goalie?

 

[TKalltheTime]

That first goal when you saw Jarry DUCKING OUT OF THE WAY OF A PUCK… you knew we were in for a world of hurt.

 

[ColePens]

What did you seriously expect without a key linchpin? I know it's vogue around these parts and Mark Madden's twitter account to say the Pens don't need 71, but we definitely do in the playoff games that matter. That PP was facing soft teams and McCann scored almost all his PP goals against shit teams. Getting 71 back will help a lot.

I don't get the sky is falling crowd. This isn't the same team, and they don't quit or wilt. Jarry makes 2 basic saves and we walk out with a win. This game is on goaltending and a couple mistakes, which we can't afford to make without Malkin's scoring.

Man I'll be here for Game 2 and a believer until the absolute final whistle. Heartbreaking loss is how we've handled these post seasons and it just keeps coming. You would think a team who won b2b Cups would just KNOW they can win OT games. Instead they don't. They know they are going to lose them. The Isles haven't won a Stanley Cup since 83? They KNOW they are winning the OT game. And they haven't won shit. Most of their players were not even born to see an Isles Cup.

It blows my mind how that happens.